JK Rowling's New Book Is a Harry Potter Spin-Off

only 7 copies to be made? well, that's bloody excellent. i guess J.K. Rowling really doesn't give a hoot about the legions of kids around the world who have embraced her characters! this is outright BS. It's all about the exclusivity and money now. the passion for the characters and the readers are gone now.

I loved the series as much as every else and I'm a grown man. She started this as a bedtime story for her kids, was never in it for the money. The money was a benefit for her great and admirable writng and imagination skill. So chill maybe one day Harry will return to novels. The stories helped me escape a bad time in my life and brought back my imagination.

jk rowling is more than admirable her charitys go far beyond any you could imagine .and the compasion she has for others is her greatest gift ,we love harry and will remain loyal fans.to the writer who brought us a new world to dive into

i don't think she's all for money before and more so now...she's richer than the queen of england for crying out loud!!i love all her books and i hope against hope that she will make more "harry potters" again...i'm an adult now and i grew up with those books and until now i when i just want to relax i go back to harry's world...

Exactly, i learned to enjoy reading with the Harry Potter books, and now she wants to be lazy and make 7 copies. You think she would realize that her books are loved by all kids and that it has been translated into almost every language so tha kids around the world can enjoy the books. I think all the money she changed her. I mean the auction for the charity is a nice gesture but what about every one else?

there are more than seven copies

i think that if you publish and make this book available to your billions of fans you can make more money in sales for your generous donation to your heartfelt charity. your book will be supported and the profits would be more than you can expect from the profits from the 7 copies you plan to make available. Please reconsider your distribution of this upcoming novel. I'm sure it's value to those who treasure your brilliance will outweigh the planned distribution of your novel.

Please don't rob us of this upcoming masterpiece!

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(we have read every book and watched every movie so many times, we have them all memorized!) What would Harry Potter say? "Something wicked this way comes"!

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I too have read and watched them so many times that I have them memorised. I would like to join a harry potter fan club or maybe make a charter, how can I do that?

No worries ppl! The book will hit book stores on Dec. 4th, 2008. It is all hype. I still hope for a day when a prequel will be made. I can't believe it's over. :o(

Firstly writing a book is something very personal so its up to her to do whatever she will with it and secondly the fact that there are seven HP books and 7 copies of beedle's book (at least at first) is probably a reference to the number of perfection/magic.

the original 7 copies were made expensive and very special because they were auctioned off for a charity... Jo has already arranged for the book to hit shelves soon for the masses of fans who adore her HP series.

In addition, she is working on "the scottish book" which is somewhat of an encyclopedia for the HP world.

so settle down and stop badmouthing my lovely Jo! :-)

I agree with you whole heartedly. I adore her books. The last beedle bard was truely excellant and gave some good back ground to the series.

Hey, she handwrote it! It's more special because of that. I think it's great that this isn't a commercial release.

The fans will get their special 'gifts' when she writes the harry potter lexicon.

"It seems that Rowling is either very fond of her wizarding universe or afraid to step outside it."

I didn't like this comment one bit. She spent so much of her life preparing to write this book. She was really down in the dumps before and now she's living good. Sounds like someone is just a tad jealous of her success.

I don't know what that reporter was on saying stuff like "recently out-of-the-closet gay Albus Dumbledore" and "Only seven copies" because there are tons of copies being sold lleagally around the world (I know because I've got one) and nothing indicates Dumbledores gay.

Jessica (J.K Rowling) Rocks.

i agree, Dumbledore is NOT GAY and j k never said that! jk you are the best! Don't stop the harry potter saga!

JK Rowling said at a book signing that she always thought of Dumbledore to be gay, it was never in the books because it has no relevance to the books. When she created Dumbledore in her brain, he was homosexual.

Sorry, I meant Joanne

Actually, J.K. Rowling did in fact come out and state that Dumbledore is gay and fell in love with the wizard Grindelwald.

The new book is excellant. I have question about Harry's grandparents on both sides. Were they killed, just die of natural causes. Why is there no info on them. Why couldnt Harry live them instead of the Dursley's?

I have been hearing about the series for years, and I have not taken an interest in reading until very recently. I did not think much of the series until I have recently finished reading the very first book. Ms. Rowling deserves every bit of admiration, glory, and credit she has received. The woman brings a brilliance to her characters. I have read many books and written one of my own, and I have never seen anyone capture the emotions and essence of characters quite the way Ms. Rowling has done.

If she could read this, I would encourage her to say to keep on writing.

these books will go down in history as the best books ever written
I hope that she will start to write a new series

I second that

i wouldnt say scarred, shes created a universe with depth and background lore, which can be compared to Tolkiens middle earth in a way and everything else that he wrote was based in that universe not because he was scarred to move on but to give even more life and depth toit; what do you want her to do crime novels now?

JK sould write a book about the marauders or what happens to harry and ginny's children it'd be cool to see her go more into the past and future

this summer i read the series and once each book was over i went to the library and got the next one bbut once harry potter and the deathly hallows was over j.k. rowling just kinda leaves you hangin'...........

I LOOOOOOOOOOOVE your books!!! I am on the first book and just got it yesterday!On the chapter ' Keeper of the keys pg 46 and I LOOOOOOOOOVE it!

It would be a really good story if voldemort had a sister that was best friends with harry and the other two and ended up falling in love with malfoy in the 6th book. But she was good and used to be bad or whatever. I keep coming up with all these stories that would be really cool in the harry potter series. Not sayin harry potter series is bad or somethin, I LUVV THE SERIES!!! :P

that sounds * actually and really predictable.

I love her books and have read them to the point where ive memorized them and ive seen all the movies up to this point but i cant wait for the seventh movie to come out and i do really enjoy the settings they had for the movies such beautiful countryside.but i do have to agree i would love to see how harry and ginny's children turn out along with everyone elses. I know that rowling is an amazing writer and has written some of the greatest stories i have ever read and i never want them to end. One day soon i hope there shall be more harry potter books but until then i guess ill just have to get by with what has already been written.

What, particularly, is the gender of Nagini?

i think nagini is a girl, she's always referred to as she or her

Hello;
I would have wish something or some more fictional book of the Harry Potter; some sort of game series like the Quidditch for each of the Harry Potter Series ; with main plot as game.

what ever u r crzy she has done alot for kids around the world. how dare u say that. u r just mad bcuz she has more money than u. she earnd what she has made. she used her mind to come up with haryy potter and the storys behind it. she used 2 b poor so i dont think that is fair 4 u 2 say that and alot of people will back me up on that. so stop bn childish. get ovr it.

I have the book

i think that the 8th harry potter book should be about voldemorts ghost haunting harry. the tales of beedle and the bard sounds rubbish and a book on a ghost voldemort sounds like a better story and eventually they can make a film on it but you cant make a film about beedle and the bard it is crap

He can't have a ghost, because he barely had a soul when he died. His soul was divided into eight pieces, seven horcruxes and then Harry's blood, and they were all destroyed.

they should make a new book

Me and my son got closer by reading the harry potter books, Every single one it was fun to want to come home from work and race to the book that brought imagination and excitement to my life again. It actually made myself as well as my child and his siblings come together to smile and laugh. We have watched everysingle movie and critizied them to every detail on what was missing that was in the books. The books are overall the best.
I wish JK Rowling all the best but also wish she continues with a little something like Hogwarts and the wizards. It brings a little excitement to the real world in an adults life (especialy a single mom of four) as well as a childs life.

wow I think I might have one of those seven copies.Hmm...

wow me, two! andi got mine at a local bookstore... maybe they should check their info on that...

I happen to think in time a prequel would be a good idea. I would love to know the parents of these wonderful wizards and their challenges trying to defeat he who must not be named. I am a die hard HP fan still at 35 grew up with the books and the movies its our generations star wars or ET, absolutley one of the best!!!

JK Rowling is what i have read that she is now writing a new book as a spin off of the harry potter books, my question would be why? she is currently per the news is worth over $560 million English Pounds, how much greed do you need, and secondly why would you make Albus Dumbaldor a out-of-closet * , why ruin a great book and story with smut and garbage like that. this is a childs book, does this mean that while a parent is reading this to their child that they have to stop and explain why they are now reading a dirty book with smut and filth of ruining a perfectly good book. it sounds like to me that if she is going to write garbage like this then she should be sued by the one that made a book about a wizzard like potter but was called Willy. i will not nor will i ever read her new book coming out called "The Tales of Beedle the Bard" because this book put the quality of the harry potter books to a lower standard than what it is currently at. i am a fan of the harry potter books but regretfully if she prints this book to down grade the harry potter books then i wont read these books ever again to my children, because i dont read dirty books to my children, i guess JK Rowling does

I don't think you're being fair. There is nothing dirty about the Harry Potter books at all, JK just said during a conference that she always saw Dumbledore as gay. What's the harm in that? It's by no means smut, unless you're homophobic of course. What about them getting married and having children at the end of Deathly Hallows? Is that smut? No of course not, it's written completely innocently, and shows where their lives led after the fall of Voldemort. JK Rowling is an amazing childrens story writer, and I applaud her for becoming the wonderful icon she has. I've been reading the Harry Potter series for ten years and not once have I considered it dirty and trashy. My aunt bought me my first book when I was eight, would she have done that if they were dirty? Of course not. They're the most memorable thing about my childhood, and I will happily read them to my own children if I have them. I have 'The Tales of Beedle the Bard' and I adore it just as much as any of the series, and any future books she may decide to write I'll love equally. JK Rowling has been an idol for me since I was small, a strong, dependant woman who worked hard and became a world-renouned author. She started with nothing, you should be congratulating her instead of putting down her work. The Harry Potter series is a work of art, one of which has been enjoyed by adults and children alike for more than ten years.

The above article is completely inaccurate. "The Tales of Beedle the Bard" is NOT a Harry Potter spin-off, but an important part of 'Harry Potter and The Deahtly Hallows'. Using her fabulous imagination, literary talent, and witty sense of humor, Rowling gave the readers of the 'The Deathly Hallows' a fantastic bonus. Along with this book, readers can also get a copy of 'Quidditch Through the Ages' and 'Magical Beasts and Where to Find Them', two books that Harry and his friends frequently borrow from the Hogwarts school library.
As a high school English teacher and school librarian, I consider J.K. Rowling and her contribution to children's and young adult literature immeasurable.
As for you, Billy Randle, you are either judging a book about which you know absolutely nothing, or, and this is just as pathetic, you read it and don't get any of it.

please, please, please, write more storys about harry with his family!

This is bs jk rowling should at least have a hundred copies and put some of them on ebay for them to go to the highest bider and still give the money made from the books to her charity.
Don't get me wrong i love jk rowling and her books.

i loved the harry potter collection and i read them all in one and a half weeks but i would love a copy of the book but it is her decision
please continue to write and u could write about when dumbeldore fights grindlewald are u could write a story about a brand new villian maby belixtrics lestraeng could have a hawcrux

I have loved all the books. Read ever one of them in no more than three day. I would love to read this book and hope she 1 day gives it to all Potter fans. I really would love to ready more harry potter books and hope 1 day there will be more

Please give us a book or three about the missing 19 years. From the moment He Who Shall Not Be Named dies, to the train station when Harry and the gangs kidds board

thats what i said after i saw the end of the movie J.K. ROWLING PLEASE MAKE ANOTHER FILM AND BOOK

It would be nice to read more a older Harry Potter and his family. I'm 70 years of age and the Harry Potter is my
best liked books ever.

man idk what anyone say's or think's i just very well hope she makes a another book and movie.

Sure 7 copies will be made, but I bet she publishes the stories on Pottermore :) I do miss her writing... not many authors and spin such wonderful stories that make you feel like you are actually experiencing the book ( sigh) Oh H.P. how I will miss you...

come on rowling im oddsessed with harry potter!!!!!like freakin oddsessed.please come out with a book like on harry's kids or something like that.you can tell about how it is having a dad that defeated you know who and how hard it is living up to his dads legacy!!!!!!tell about his adventures!!!!!!!please please pretty please

J. K. is the author-creator of Harry Potter and certainly has the right (creative and financial) to her intellectual property.

Hooray for J. K. and her encouragement of reading.
Treacy Manion

well i hope she changes her mind about all of this and actually publishes it.....come on writing a book that's a spin off of a famous series and is only seven copies.....plz make one for 5 times as many people of the world....

i think writing the tales of beedle the bard is fine if thats what shee wants but personally i wish she would go back in time and pick up on when harry,s parents and severus and tom riddle all went to hogwarts and what really led to the demise of harry,s parents. now that would be a real read for adults. when the last page of deathly hallows ended that was what i craved the true story of what happened to harry,s parents. write that and i promise i would buy it.